Extend Fair Labor Protections to Home Care Workers

Thank you for taking a few minutes to support fair labor protections for home care workers in New York and throughout the country. Please fill in all of the required information and enter your comments in the box below.

(The suggested text includes important points for the Department of Labor to hear. Feel free to use the provided text and/or add comments of your own!)

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[I/my family] employ a ________ (specify: nanny, house cleaner, home care worker).

I am writing in support of the Department of Labor’s proposed rule that would narrow the current exemption of home care workers from the minimum wage and overtime protections under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The proposed regulations will help to stabilize the home care workforce that is experiencing high turnover because of low pay and long hours. These workers help elders and people with disabilities stay in their homes and out of institutions and these protections will result in less attrition and better quality care.  I also support the proposed rule to require employers of live-in domestic workers to keep records of their workers’ hours worked. But it is important for the employers to keep other records like the rate of pay, total wages paid, or deductions for meals and housing. Deductions for meals and housing are common for live-in workers, and without keeping these records, it is easy to make errors in calculating the worker’s wages. Employers can easily keep track of these records using computers or smartphones. I hope you will move this proposal forward!

Extend Fair Labor Protections to Home Care Workers

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